UKRAINE is entering the third year of its unequal war with Russia in a worse plight than when the fighting began. It has begun inauspiciously with the surrender of the besieged eastern city of Avdiivka by its outnumbered defenders. The Russians seem impregnably dug in on a fifth of Ukrainian territory and the military, badly […]
FDI or Foreign Direct Investment in China hit a 30-year low last year. China’s direct investment liabilities in its balance of payments stood at $33 billion last year, according to data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange released Sunday. That measure of new foreign investment into the country — which records monetary flows connected […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s January tax collections were $98 million less than budgeted but up $15.8 million from 2023. That puts the state $378 million behind its budgeted total for the first half of the fiscal year and $104 million short of collections from the first six months […]
National Geographic magazine has named nine people as its Travelers of the Year. One of those travelers is Wyn Wylie of Bend, Oregon. Wylie is a drag queen who goes by the name Pattie Gonia. He is a photographer and outdoor enthusiast. Say his drag name quickly – it becomes the name of an outdoor […]
Image Credit: OZinOH / CC & Public Domain The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – A bill dealing with social media censorship that was deferred last year is on the move again and on the schedule for one of the Tennessee General Assembly’s subcommittees. Rep. Dennis Powers’ (R-Jacksboro-District 36) proposed legislation aims to stymie censorship from […]
Image Credit: RDNE Stock project / Pexels The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee students in a pilot educational savings account program in three counties are receiving $9,800 – the average statewide funding per public school student – this year. That’s higher than the $7,075 first-year number in a proposed statewide ESA program and […]
San Francisco ended 2023 with the highest commercial real estate vacancy rate in the city’s history. San Francisco’s amount of vacant office space has reached the highest level ever recorded in the city’s history. According to preliminary fourth quarter data provided by real estate brokerage CBRE, the city’s vacancy rate ticked up nearly 2 percentage […]
Image Credit: sofatutor / UnSplash The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) says that TCAP scores for each school will be available through their website when they release the 2023 scores sometime “in early 2024.” For now, this leaves the public with a limited amount of information pertaining to […]
I completely missed this when it was published at the end of last month. Fortunately, Jesse Singal did a great write-up about it which I noticed today. As you may know, Bill Adair is the founder of Politifact, a site which has generate a lot of content for this blog over the years. Last month, […]
Image Credit: Paladin27 / CC The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – A bill that was raised last session and pushed off until this year was again pushed to next month for its presentation to the Senate Judiciary Committee for its review and determination of fitness to move forward in the legislative process. Senator […]
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